Type-holder.



PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903.

F. W. WEEKS.

TYPE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1903.

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TYPE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,837, dated November 24, 1903. Application filed January 10, 1903. $erial No. 138,507- (No model.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK W. WEEKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive holder or containing device for type which will facilitate the rapid setting and distribution of the latter.

To this end the invention includes a plate supported, preferably, in a vertical position from a wall or the like, said plate having aplurality of equidistant-lyspaced parallel slots therein, of substantially the width of the type, said slots extending obliquely through the plate, or at an angle to the face of the same,

sloping downwardly from front to rear, the

lower edges of the slots providing stops or seats for the shoulders of the type held within the same.

The invention further includes the details of construction and combination of parts to be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

While the invention is susceptible of various modifications, the accompanying drawings illustrate and I shall hereinafter describe What is now conceived to be the preferred embodiment of the same.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the'case, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View.

The improved construction of case herein presented is designed, primarily, to be employed in conjunction with a novel construction of type for which I have filed an application in the UnitedStates Patent Office on the 11th day of November, 1902, said application being serially numbered 130,911. The type disclosed in said application are provided with duplicate characters arranged upon oppositerends of the same, one set of said characters corresponding to those employed in the common construction of type, presenting the characters on the endthereof negatively, while the other character upon each type is positively presented. As described in said application, this novel construction of type facilitates reading of the matter set up, obviating the necessity of securing a proof or copy of the same, and it further permits of speed in the setting of the type by others than skilled compositors. The type disclosed in said application are of substantially oblong shape, and upon one longitudinal side of the same, adjacent to the end carrying the proof-letter, a shoulder is provided, formed by enlarging the proof end of the type on one side.

In the accompanying drawings a wall or similar backing or support is designated by the numeral 1, to which the case proper, 2, is secured. The case is preferably constructed of a rectangular sheet or plate approximately one-quarter of an inch in thickness and substantially one foot square, although these proportions are not essential. The plate is secured to the wall in any desired manner and is spaced about the distance of an inch therefrom. In this board a plurality of substantiallyequidistantly-spaced parallel slots3 are horizontally arranged, each of which is of substantially the width of the type to be held therein. The slots 3 extend obliquely from front to rear of the plate 2 in the directions of their lengths or at an angle to the front face of said plate, sloping downwardly from said front face toward the rear of the plate. The type are placed in the slots 3 with their proof-faces exposed or presented toward the front and with their shoulders 4 presented downwardly, so that when released the said shoulders will engage with the lower front edges 5 of the slots 3 to support the type, with a part of their proof ends protruding through the front of said slots to permit them to be readily grasped by the compositor.

In distributing the type a type containing letter a, for instance, will be held with the end containing the proof-letter in proper position to be read when the compositor is facing the plate 2 and in this position dropped into the upper slot 3 at the left-hand end of the same. As the shoulder 4c on the type is presented downwardly it will engage with the under edge of said slot and prevent the type when released by the compositor from passing entirely through the receiving-slot. Next to the type so positioned another type containing the character a will be placed, and so on until a row of as is formed. Un-

der the row of as a line of bs will be placed and thereunder a row of cs, and so on until the alphabet is exhausted.

The construction and operation of my invention will be readily understood upon reference to the foregoing description and accompanying drawings, and it will be appreciated that the parts and combinations recited may be varied within a Wide range without departing from the spirit of the same.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a typecase; designed for use with type, having proof characters upon one of their ends, and shoulders upon one of their sides adjacent to said ends; comprising a rectangular body having a plurality of equidistantly-spaced slots therein with unobstructed front edges, said slots extending transversely of the body and downwardly from front to rear of the same, and

being substantially of the width of the type held therein, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a vertically-supporting surface, of a type-case designed to hold type which have proof characters upon one of their ends and shoulders upon one of their sides adjacent to said end, said case comprising a body having slots extending through the same and running transversely thereof, and means projecting from the rear face of said body,'and designed for engagement with said vertical supporting-surface to support the case from said surface with its rear face separated a distance therefrom, substantially as described. I

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK W. WEEKS.

Witnesses:

MARY E. THAYER, G. S. MCFARLAND. 

